Word: fatalism
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...illness that is gradually choking to death a million or more Americans might be expected to be a well-known subject of intensive attack by medical scientists. But the progressive and eventually fatal shortness of breath that doctors call emphysema (pronounced em-fe-see-muh) is so little known that it has no common English name. Until recently few laymen even realized that it existed,* and most doctors thought it was rare. But emphysema is rapidly changing its status. It is now recognized as probably the most common disabling disorder of the respiratory system...
...opinion, but The Alabama Lawyer's authors never once attempted to spell out the other side of the argument-even though, as Frankel noted, "the lawyer who cannot see his opponent's side or , the difficulties in his own case gropes in a blindness that is often fatal...
...reason the joke caught on so well, I think, was that it contained a fatal germ of truth. Supporters flocked to the cause with an intuitive enthusiasm--but they were flocking to several different causes...
...more than a year ago in Auckland, New Zealand, it is now being practiced on four continents in the hope of saving fetuses endangered by Rh incompatibility. And if its pioneers' hopes are fulfilled, embryatrics will eventually be extended to the treatment and prevention of other handicapping or fatal conditions...
...after power plows. How times have changed. The hero of Nine Days is a nuclear scientist who is hopelessly hung up on a great big, beautiful neutron breeder. The Stakhanovites sweated for the sake of the socialist society. But the scientist in this picture labors, and even accepts a fatal dose of radiation, for the sweet sake of science-because, as he proclaims, "You cannot stop an idea!" Just like Greer Garson in Madame Curie...